Smart Lipo - New Jersey

Have you changed your diet or adopted a consistant exercise regime?

you look like you may have some visceral fat, which may be why you don't see much improvement, which no surgery can fix diet and exercise helps with that. visceral fat feels hard when you press it

Your 7 day and 3 week pics look dramatically different as far as your lower tummy goes. You should definitely just wait a while longer and see how it goes. I am at about 2.5 weeks after slim lipo and i don't see any results yet. I'm trying to remain optimistic but it can be so hard after reading some of the people on here who were 100% improved the following day - they suck!!! Anyway, hang in there.

I am at week four now and I wont even bother posting a pic because I see no further change. I am still fairly sore, still wearing the compression garment half the time now and still have mutliple seroma areas. The skin itches and it is still uncomfortable to wear clothes, bend over to tie my shoes or even sleep. I am still massaging daily. The roll on the lower gut is still there also. My clothes dont fit much differntly than before. how much time do I have to give this? I am soooooo disappointed I can't begin to describe it. I go back to the doctor this week. I am sure he is going to say, give it more time, but I am thoroughly disappointed.
Rock

I would demand your doc to redo you with no additional costs. There is hardly any difference here!

I have always had a tendency to retain water, I cross my legs and always leave an indent in my skin. I am going to try to use moist heat on my stomach and hope that it will help bring any swelling or water retention down. I am just really disgusted at this point. With my compression garment on my jeans only button slightly easier than before all this pain and money. My husband tells me to give it a little time. Friends tell me they can't understand why I did it since they don't see any difference, except that I now can't sit, walk or move wihtout discomfort. Many reviews I read say that redoing an area is not necessarily a wise move. I may have to read more on that if this doesn't improve over the next few weeks. I look at Beavercreeks before and after compared to mine and I get depressed. We started out looking very similar but our after pictures are a world apart. She looks great.

The thing is rock, is it really fat there or loose skin and/or seperation of abdominal muscles? From your day 7 pic it does look like you do have a lot of stretched skin. If this is the case, then even if you get a redone, the results wont be much different than now . .

Hey farz,
Loose skin should just hang, which I had anticipated. My stomach is hard and rounded off. I can't even grasp that much skin. Aside from that, shouldn't I be flatter even if the skin hung on top of it? i shoudl be able to fit into my pants even if I had loose skin? I just got dressed to leave for a weekend trip and I can't breath in my clothes with the garment under them. They are tighter now than a week ago. I guess I can't wear sweatpants to meet people for dinner huh? I wish. My wieght is also exactly the same also. I am still hoping this will flatten out. I could not find any pics of anyone with reuslts like mine and some were bigger at the start.

Hey Rock. . do you think its swelling? About a week after my lipo (luv handles) it got really hard and big, which lasted up to 2 1/2 weeks and then it started to come down slowly. Oh, I dont know what the weather is like down there but why not try a dress instead of pants for dinner. Hmmm. I'm just searching this site trying to figure out which type of lipo I need on my back area . . .